by Massive Voodoo

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

there is a new ape in the jungle: Erik, aka "Archer".

As you all know, the MassiveVoodoo blog is some kind of a chilled living room for a group of close friends, who share painting miniatures as a common passion. Erik was already a good friend for some years now and as he moved to Augsburg and found a seat in the MV studio we invited him to join us here on MV some weeks ago.

As we are all very busy with our daily life, it took some time to find the proper words for this moment, but now we want to give him the opportunity to introduce himself and music:

Years
of Painting: uuh...not easy
to say, I started 1997 and took long break after 1999. I started
again 2004 with another break between 2008 and 2010, but since 2010
I'm painting constandly, so its almost 12 years of painting over the
years.

Media:
Mostly
acrylics, but I always like to give new things a try.

Brushes:
Winsor & Newton Series 7, Raphael Series 8402

Airbrush:
Yes, I use i for a lot of
different tasks. Sometimes it just depends on my mood.

Miniatures:
Fantasy, SciFi, Historical scales between 28mm and 75 mm, busts in
different sizes and somtimes also scale models.

Speed:
Depends again on my mood and the project from slow to rather quick
everthing is possible.

Average
Painting Hours per day:
I try to paint as much as my work and life allows me to do.

Sculpting:
Rarely, I just started to sculpt whole miniatures and busts and I'm
still on a beginners level.

Favorite
Painters and Sculptors:
There are so my people how are an inspiration, I can't count them,
even a beginner can kick you into a new direction for future
projects. Never underestimate a new mind.

Since
2015 I live in the wonderfull city of Augsburg, Germany, but I was
born and raised in a small region of Germany called, Saarland. A
really nice place to live, with a strange kind of german language.

I
started long time ago as a tabletop player, like probably most of the
people in this wonderfull community. In this time, the Internet just
was a almost undiscovered land (Yes I'm a bit older guy) and you had
to wait minutes to load a small page. The community was mostly a
locale one and it wasn't easy to find people to play or paint.

After a
Games Day visit, I wanted to paint such beautifull miniatures too and
here my painting voyage has realy begun.

I
started to learn more about colors, techniques, basing, sculpting and
lot more. I searched for people, who have the same passion as me
(much easier with this big and fast Internet). Well, I found „DasBemalforum“ and met some great, talented and crazy people.

Some years ago attending my first workshop with Roman and Raffa.

I
learned a lot, but I wanted more. I visited some Workshops with
Christian „Bestienmeister“ Reckerth, Ben „White Rabbit“ Komets and last but not least Roman and Raffa from Massive Voodoo.
All this people showed me not only simply to paint a miniature.

They
showed me, to create and bringing small storys with this
miniatures to life, coming from my heart, made with love and passion.

Erik & Raffa

I love
it to start a new project, or just build a base with no special
intention to finish it, just to let my creativity a way to become
alive. My cabinet is full with WIP's that probably never will be
finished. But from time to time I see one of this forgotten ones and
I with a new notion in mind, I finish it like a paint maniac.

Meanwhile,
I have found a good way to bring my kind of creativity to a useful
purpose. Well actually Roman found that purpose. Roman is a truly
paint maniac, but he doesn't like to do the preparation stuff all the time, so I
once in a while assamble a lot of his miniature he wants to paint and we both can do
wath we realy love.Of course I get something in return and this is not only Roman's bro love :)

Post a Comment

Search Massive Voodoo

Newsletter

FAST LINKS

Welcome to the Jungle...

... MASSIVE VOODOO’s jungle, where some apes share their thoughts and ideas around their beloved passion, the hobby of miniature painting and sculpting.

Feel welcome to come and check the jungle for tons of articles, interesting tutorials, creative competitions and the simple joy of happy painting hidden behind every tree. We hope that everyone finds their own banana in here, if not do not hesitate to ask the apes. We are more than happy for you to post in the comments section to help turn this jungle into the lush, overgrown painting corner we hope it will become.